7. Graffiti

[futurebird]

←- →Burnt-out buildings, dreary overpasses, the rust-stained walls of desolate parks, underground passageways, rail yards, the least loved and lest visited subway terminals and neighborhoods all of these places collect the lively scripts of graffiti. Like hieroglyphic weeds the names of the artists call out in bright and surprising color. On the

Comments

[sevenjades]

I think grafitti done well is a sign of life. Too often, though, it's the human equilivant of a dog marking his territory, and about as pleasant.

[beezari]

Leave the graffiti 'evolution' alone, and the best pieces will stay. Hunt and jail the graff folks, and it will be mostly criminal minds who'd stay. That's where the "dog marking" bit comes from.
I doubt there's much of 'dog marking' mentality in average graff-kid head.

[futurebird]

I think it's amazing that it's ever pleasant. More often than not it's more interesting than whatever it's covering up.

[beezari]

Wow... I love this piece! :) you have a talent of putting the words in a way so you just flow through the text, not really read it! :)

[futurebird]

Wow, thanks!

[auntysocial]

I wish the graffiti paint out patrol would use more imagination. Gray and beige squarish blots are everywhere I look.

[futurebird]

You'll love this: http://www.cafeselmarie.com/artist_laird.html

more...

[futurebird]

http://www.cafeselmarie.com/artist_laird.html
http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2005/03/subconscious-art-of-graffiti-removal.html

Re: more...

[beezari]

ha ha .. "art of graffiti removal" that's an interesting bit. Gray boxes are funny, reminds pieces of earlier cubism(sp?)

[drumnbach]

It makes me sad that graffiti has become the backdrop to pessimistic music videos. Ever since I was a kid I've seen graffiti as being beautiful and as a symbol of the fact that no matter what the human circumstance, art will always flourish, and this will never change.

[force_of_will]

They had it on the show, "Rome". Political Graffitti.

And, then, there are politically proper places for words! Heh.

In what made things is not the human and the greater spirit displayed and defined. Next up from history, children laughing is noise pollution. You remember right? "Seen and not heard..."

Rock On Sister

[futurebird]

Long time, no see!

[force_of_will]

I might mention this. I live about 4 miles outside a small town about an hour south of St. Louis and the major business is railroad car repair. There are sets of tracks running several miles down through the middle of town and they are where many cars in need of repair are parked.

They are often sprayed with much graffitti and I find the work fascinating...

Then the cars are repaired and repainted and gone...

Will